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Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Who runs India?

(A
view of the various economic and political activities reveals that it is the
Brahmins and Banias who practically run and control India!)

Sometimes one wonders
how such a large country is run and who really runs it? Arundhati Roy calls
India, “An Upper Caste Hindu Corporate Republic”! One would have thought that
she may have been saying this in anger but an examination of various economic
and political organisations reveals that she is 100% right. This has been
already done in detail by Aakar Patel. The live mint, an e-paper of the
Hindustan Times group carries an article in its April 8, 2017 edition by Aakar
Patel titled “When will the Brahmin-Bania hegemony end?” The article which was
first published in 2009 gives a detailed picture of the people who are really
running India. It would be interesting to quote the facts given by Aakar Patel.
According to him, India is run by Brahmins and Banias only. Brahmins, Banias
and Jains altogether constitute less than 6% of the population.

Aakar Patel states that
at the time of independence, India was politically run
by a Brahmin (Jawaharlal Nehru) whose mentor was a Bania (Mahatma Gandhi). The
chief minister of Uttar Pradesh was a Brahmin (Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant), the
first chief minister of Gujarat was a Bania (Jivraj Mehta). Madhya Pradesh was
run by a Brahmin (Ravi Shankar Shukla), Rajasthan was run by a Brahmin (H.L.
Shastri), Kerala was run by a Brahmin (E.M.S. Namboodiripad), Punjab was run by
a Brahmin (G.C. Bhargava) and Assam was ruled by a Brahmin (G.N. Bordoloi). In
2009 when the article was first written, only one state was run by a Brahmin
that was West Bengal run by Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee. Incidentally, Shudras
who are wrongly construed to mean untouchables are in reality peasants (Patels)
and constitute more than 50% of the population.

In
2009, most of the states were politically under the control of Shudras. Andhra Pradesh was run by a peasant Christian (Y.S.R. Reddy), Bihar was
run by a peasant Kurmi (Nitish Kumar) and Gujarat was run by a peasant from the
Teli/Ghanchi caste (Narendra Modi). Haryana was run by a peasant Jat (Bhupinder
Hooda), Karnataka was ruled by a peasant Lingayat (B.S. Yeddyurappa), Kerala was
run by a peasant Ezhava (V.S. Achuthanandan) and Madhya Pradesh was run by a
peasant OBC (Shivraj Chouhan). Maharashtra was run by a peasant Maratha (Ashok
Chavan), Rajasthan was run by a peasant Mali (Ashok Gehlot), Punjab was run by
a peasant Jat (Parkash Badal), Tamil Nadu was run by a peasant Vellalar (M. Karunanidhi)
and Uttar Pradesh was run by a Dalit (Mayawati). Even though, the Shudras
mostly control politics but the backbone of the country, the economy is now
fully controlled by Brahmins and Banias. Regarding the hold of Brahmins and
Banias on economy, it would be interesting to again quote Aakar Patel.

“The Sensex comprises the 30 largest traded companies of India. ACC is
run by a Brahmin (Sumit Banerjee), Bhel is run by a Brahmin (Ravi Kumar Krishna
Swamy), Bharti Airtel is run by a Bania (Sunil Mittal), Grasim and Hindalco are
run by a Bania (Kumar Mangalam Birla). HDFC is run by a Bania (Deepak Parekh),
Hindustan Unilever is run by a Brahmin (Nitin Paranjpe), ICICI Bank is headed
by a Brahmin (K.V. Kamath). Jaiprakash Associates is run by a Brahmin (Yogesh
Gaur), L&T is run by a Brahmin (A.M. Naik), NTPC is run by a Brahmin (R.S.
Sharma), ONGC is run by a Brahmin (also called R.S. Sharma). Reliance group
firms are run by Banias (Mukesh and Anil Ambani), State Bank of India is run by
a Brahmin (O.P. Bhatt), Sterlite Industries is run by a Bania (Anil Agarwal),
Sun Pharma is run by a Bania (Dilip Shanghvi) and Tata Steel is run by a
Brahmin (B. Muthuraman). “Punjab National Bank is run by a Brahmin (K.C.
Chakrabarty), Bank of Baroda is run by a Brahmin (M.D. Mallya) and Canara Bank
is run by a Bania (A.C. Mahajan)”. “Of India’s software companies, Infosys is
run by a Brahmin (Kris Gopalakrishnan now and Narayana Murthy and Nandan
Nilekani before him). TCS is run by a Brahmin (Subramanian Ramadorai). Wipro is
owned by a Khoja (Azim Premji). Khojas are Shia of the Sevener sect, converted
from the Luhana trading community (same caste as L.K. Advani and M.A. Jinnah)”.
“India’s two largest airlines are Kingfisher, owned by a Brahmin (Vijay Mallya)
and Jet, owned by a Bania (Naresh Goyal)”. “Of India’s mobile phone firms, Reliance
Communications (Ambani), Airtel (Mittal), Vodafone Essar (Ruia), Idea (Birla),
Spice (Modi) are owned by Banias. BSNL is run by a Bania (Kuldeep Goyal) and
Tata’s TTML is run by a Brahmin (K.A. Chaukar)”. “Cricket in India is run by a
Bania (Lalit Modi) and before him it was run by another Bania (Jagmohan
Dalmiya)”.

“Of India’s steel companies Essar is owned by Banias (Ruia),
ArcelorMittal is owned by a Bania (Laxmi Mittal), Ispat is owned by Banias
(Mittals), Jindal Steel is owned by Banias, Bhushan Steel is owned by Banias
(Singhal), VISA Steel is owned by Banias (Agarwal). State-owned SAIL is run by
a Bania (S.K. Roongta) and Lloyd Steel is owned by Banias (Gupta)”. “Of India’s
cement companies, Ambuja is owned by Banias (Neotia and Sekhsaria), Dalmia
Cements is owned by Banias, Ultratech and Vikram Cement are owned by Banias
(Birla) and JK Cement is owned by Banias (Singhania). Hindustan Motors is owned
by Banias (Birla) and Bajaj Auto is owned by Banias”.

“Media in India is almost
entirely controlled by Banias and Jains. Of the two largest English
newspapers, TheTimes of
India is owned by Jains and the Hindustan
Times is owned by Banias (Birla). The third largest English
paper, TheHindu, is owned by
Brahmins (Kasturi Iyengar family). The Indian Express is
owned by Banias (Goenka). Zee TV is owned by a Bania (Subhash Chandra Goel). Of
the two largest Hindi newspapers, Dainik Jagran is
owned by Banias (Gupta), and Dainik Bhaskar is
owned by Banias (Agarwal). The Agarwals also own Gujarati daily Divya Bhaskar. The largest Gujarati newspaper Gujarat Samachar is owned by Jains (Shah). The
largest Marathi paper Lokmat is owned
by Jains (Darda). Rajasthan Patrika is owned by
Jains (Kothari). Navbharat Times is owned by
Jains and Hindustan owned by Banias (Birla). Amar Ujala is owned by Banias (Maheshwari)”.

“Old economy, new economy: All
economy in India is owned and run by two castes. The Brahmin used his monopoly
on knowledge and the Bania used his high-trust culture of trade to become
dominant. Their skills are world-class. Given the realities of capital
formation, it is difficult for other castes to catch up soon”.

How is such a minuscule minority running such a huge country of the
millions of poor without any massive rebellion from them? Interestingly, the
present trend of heightened Hindutva using religion to declare India a Hindu
Rashtra gives the clue. Here the saying of Karl Marx that “the Religion is the
Opium of the poor” fits appropriately! It is being practically used by the rich
in India to keep the teeming millions of the poor down under! But one wonders
how long can this deception last? One day the poor will definitely reclaim
their rights. Incidentally, that trend has already started!